Thirty-five miles northwest of Chicago is Long Grove, a town that’s earned considerable renown for its apple cider doughnuts. Of all the things your town can become synonymous with, apple cider doughnuts is pretty neat. These doughnuts were sold fresh at a shop called the Long Grove Apple Haus, and they were a…

It’s National Doughnut Day—or, as like to call it, “Friday,” because any day can be Doughnut Day if you try hard enough. Honestly though, I love any opportunity to talk about doughnuts, and would like to use this holiday to bring awareness to my favorite summer dessert: grilled doughnuts.

You might know them as "Campfire Doughnuts," and the purist inside you doesn't have to consider them official. But the part of you that wants the freshest possible doughnut-ish treat can quickly fry up a batch using cardboard-canned biscuit dough.